Jill's Journal: All day, we spotted small trailer after small trailer traveling between the firemen’s carnival grounds and Assateague. And at 5pm, over a dozen mares with their foals were still at the carnival grounds presumably waiting for their ride. A local confirmed the firemen do indeed transport the mares with foals back individually, which I found so interesting and refreshing. That swim and stress of the week has got to be tough on the little babies.
One other note: we’re used to one of the country’s biggest events, the Kentucky Derby, right in our backyard. With over 150,000 people at Churchill Downs in one afternoon and security up to ying-yang, a person can only go to the areas where their ticket allows access. It is a BIG event and it is intense. I’m so used to this that I expect every big event to be like this.
But the pony swim is nothing of the sort. A person can go anywhere they please and do just about anything they want as long as they’re not bothering anyone or endangering anyone. It’s casual and it’s sweet, to the point that people are willing to give up their space to accommodate perfect strangers. When we watched the pony swim from the dock near our trailer, we had person after person offer us their location so the kids could see better. You’d never find that at a big corporate event!
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